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Comptia Project + Project Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The earliest point in time on which the uncompleted portions of a schedule activity (or the project) can finish - based on the schedule network logic - the data date and any schedule constraints.
lessons learned(Output/Input)
matrix organization
earned value management (EV
early finish date (EF)
2. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project
scheduled start date (SS)
project management process group
sensitivity analysis
monitor and control risks (Process)
3. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities
statement of work (SOW)
schedule model (Tool)
schedule network analysis (Technique)
hammock activity
4. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu
enterprise environmental factors (Input/Output)
project management system (Tool)
hammock activity
network logic
5. Developing options and actions to enhance opportunities and to reduce threats to project objectives
issue Point or matter in question or dispute
plan risk response (Process)
precedence diagramming method (PDM) (Technique)
change control system (Tool)
6. Process of numerically analyzing the effect of identified risks on overall project objectives
time and material contract (T&M)
perform quality assurance (Process)
perform quantitative analysis (Process)
develop project management plan (Process)
7. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities
develop schedule (Process)
project management team
threat
scheduled finish date (SF)
8. Project model that translates the uncertainties specified at a detailed level into the potential impact on objectives that are expressed at the level of the total project. Monte Carlo Analysis
configuration management system (Tool)
develop human resource plan (Process)
estimate activity resources (Process)
simulation
9. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic
perform quantitative analysis (Process)
buyer
communications management plan (Output/Input)
project
10. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively
project management
bottom-up estimating (Technique)
value engineering
project schedule (Output/Input)
11. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.
milestone schedule (Tool)
project charter (Output/Input)
risk category
work breakdown structure dictionary
12. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.
three point estimate (Technique)
pareto chart (Tool)
lessons learned(Output/Input)
initiating processes (Process Group)
13. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector
project quality management (Knowledge Area)
lag (Technique)
budget at completion (BAC)
application area
14. Document that graphically depicts the project team members and their interrelationships for a specific project
produce scope
risk tolerance
estimate costs (Process)
project organization chart (Output/Input)
15. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts
brainstorming (Technique)
program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
early finish date (EF)
close procurements (Process)
16. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat
close project or phase (Process)
verification
successor activity
progressive elaboration (Technique)
17. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s
work performance information
start to start (SS)
performance measurement baseline
forward pass
18. Any unique and verifiable product - result - or capability to perform a service that must be produced to complete a process - phase or project.
project manager
parametric estimating (Technique)
deliverable (Output/Input)
milestone
19. Document that describes how the project scope will be defined - developed and verified and how the work breakdown structure will be created and defined and that provides guidance on how the project scope will be managed and controlled by the project
early start date (ES)
work package
scope management plan(Output/Input)
human resource plan
20. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule
actual duration
earned value management (EV
virtual team
schedule management plan (Output/Input)
21. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship
material
defect repair
predecessor activity
successor activity
22. A documented tabulation of schedule activities that shows the activity description - activity identifier - and a sufficiently detailed scope of work description so project team members understand what work is to be performed
threshold
activity list (Output/Input)
lessons learned(Output/Input)
risk
23. Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.
total float
work breakdown structure (WBS) (Output/Input)
schedule compression
conduct procurements (Process)
24. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools
planning package
identify risks (Process)
work authorization
practice
25. Quantitative risk analysis and modeling technique used to determine which risks have the most potential impact on the project. typical display of results is in the form of a tornado diagram
activity
manage project team (Process)
sensitivity analysis
imposed date
26. Processes required to manage the timely completion of a project
Monte Carlo simulation
time scaled schedule network diagram (Tool)
project time management (Knowledge Area)
risk mitigation (Technique)
27. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.
baseline
three point estimate (Technique)
project management knowledge area
constraint (Input)
28. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.
risk breakdown structure (RBS)
failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) (Technique)
duration (DU or DUR)
threat
29. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system
workaround
change control system (Tool)
deliverable (Output/Input)
plan quality (Process)
30. Any form of schedule network analysis in which scheduling decisions are driven by resource constraints
specification limits
external deliverable
value engineering
resource leveling (Technique)
31. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates
buyer
influence diagram (Tool)
program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
plan risk response (Process)
32. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.
requirements traceability matrix
estimate activity durations (Process)
product life cycle
project cost management (Knowledge Area)
33. Risk response planning technique for a threat that creates changes to the project management plan that are meant to either eliminate the risk or to protect the project objectives from its impact.
manage stakeholder expectations (Process)
verification
risk avoidance (Technique)
probability and impact matrix (Tool)
34. Document containing the results of the qualitative risk analysis - quantitative risk analysis and risk response planning. details all identified risks including description - category - cause - probability of occurring - impact on objectives - propos
tool
project schedule network diagram (Output/Input)
firm fixed price contract (FFP)
risk register (Output/Input)
35. The merging or joining of parallel schedule network paths into the same node in a project schedule network diagram. characterized by a schedule activity with more than one predecessor activity
path convergence
planned value (PV)
develop human resource plan (Process)
Gantt chart (Tool)
36. A specific technique for measuring the performance of work and used to establish the performance measurement baseline
earned value technique (EVT) (Technique)
perform quality control (Process)
reserve
perform integrated change control (Process)
37. Action taken to bring a defective or nonconforming component into compliance with requirements or specifications
rework
work breakdown structure dictionary
authority
effort
38. Change to project scope. almost always requires an adjustment to the project cost or schedule
change control board (CCB)
forward pass
performance measurement baseline
scope change
39. Graphical representation of situations showing causal influences - time ordering of events and other relationships among variables and outcomes
estimate activity resources (Process)
influence diagram (Tool)
objective
project cost management (Knowledge Area)
40. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline
methodology
brainstorming (Technique)
practice
requirement
41. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle
project manager
activity identifier
define activities (Process)
project calendar
42. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me
analogous estimating (Technique)
path convergence
project human resource management (Knowledge Area)
result
43. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach
project initiation management (Knowledge Area)
close project or phase (Process)
plan communications (Process)
performing organization
44. Analyzing activity sequences - durations - resource requirements and schedule constraints to create the project schedule
develop schedule (Process)
planning package
logical relationship
earned value management (EV
45. The aggregate of things used by an organization in any undertaking such as equipment - apparatus - tools - machinery - gear - material.
perform integrated change control (Process)
finish date
decomposition (Technique)
material
46. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes
output (Process)
sensitivity analysis
budget
calendar unit
47. Narrative description of products - services or results
schedule compression
project management knowledge area
close procurements (Process)
statement of work (SOW)
48. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.
parametric estimating (Technique)
perform quality control (Process)
project human resource management (Knowledge Area)
project management body of knowledge
49. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives
voice of the customer
schedule baseline
pareto chart (Tool)
planning package
50. Measure of schedule efficiency on a project. ratio of earned value (EV) and the planned value (PV). SV = EV minus PV.
schedule performance index (SPI)
estimate to complete (ETC)(Output/Input)
project management knowledge area
predecessor activity